This document summarizes linguistic data from 6 Eastern Partnership countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. For each country it provides information on the ethnic composition according to recent census data, the languages used by ethnic groups, and details on whether they have signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The primary languages in most countries are Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Georgian, Moldovan/Romanian, and Ukrainian, but Russian is also widely used in some.

1. Linguistic Rights in the Eastern Partnership Countries

2. Applied Mar
12, 1993
Nov 9, 1995
Jul
13, 199
5
Jan
Apr
27, 1999 25, 200
1
Jan
25, 2001

3. Languages of Armenia
Ethnic group
97.9%
Language use
97.7%
Entered
Into the Languages
Charter Jan 25, 2002
1.3%
Armenian
(official)
1%
Yezidi (Kurd)
0.5%
0.9%
Russian
0.3%
0.4%
Other
(Greek, Assyr
ian)
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012) based on 2001 census
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/am.html

4. Languages of Azerbaijan
Ethnic group
Language use
90.6% 90.3%
Signed
the Languages Charter
Dec 21, 2001
2.2%
Azeri
(official)
2.2%
Dagestani (Lezgi)
1.8%
1.8%
Russian
1.5%
1.5%
Armenian
(disputed
Nagorny
Karabakh)
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012) based on 1999 census
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aj.html
3.9%
3.3%
Other

5. Languages of Belarus
Ethnic group (2009 census)
Language use (1999 census)
83.7%
70.2%
23.4%
8.3%
3.1%
Belorussian
Russian
1.8%
Polish
1.7%
1.5%
Ukrainian
(both official)
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html
3.2%
3.3%
Other

6. Languages of Georgia
Ethnic group
Language use
83.8%
71%
6.5%
6.5%
5.7%
9%
6%
1.5%
Georgian
Azeri
Armenian
Russian
(official)
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012) based on 2002 census
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gg.html
7%
2.5%
Other

7. Languages of Moldova
Ethnic group
Language use
78.2%
73.8%
Signed
the Languages
Charter Jul 11, 2002
National Political
Conception - RussianMoldovan bilingualism
16%
8.4%
3.3%
Moldovan/Romanian
(official)
Ukrainian
5.8%
Russian
4.4%
2.7%
Gagauz
Regional in
Gagauzia
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012) based on 2004 census
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/md.html
3.2%
4.2%
Other

8. Languages of Ukraine
Ethnic group
Language use
Entered
Into the Languages
Charter Jan 1, 2006
77.8%
67.0%
24%
In respect to
Belorussian, Bulgarian, Crimean
Tatar, Gagauz, Greek, German, Hun
garian, Jewish/Yiddish, Moldavian,
Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak
17.3%
9%
4.9%
Ukrainian
Russian
(official)
Source: CIA World Factbook (2012) based on 2001 census
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html
Other

10. Kostiantyn Iakovliev
Ukraine
• MA in Human Rights and
Democratization,
Yerevan State
University, 2012
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